OPB

Oregon’s treasurer wants $90B pension fund to drop fossil fuels

State Treasurer Tobias Read wants the Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, a pension serving about 160,000 people and valued at about $90 billion, to stop investing in companies that emit ...
Yahoo

Oregon’s Polluters Pay Act could charge fossil fuel companies for climate damages

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon state lawmakers are considering a bill that would make the largest fossil fuel companies pay “their fair share” of damages to the state for emissions driving climate ...
Ars Technica

Oregon county seeks to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for extreme heat

Northwest Oregon had never seen anything like it. Over the course of three days in June 2021, Multnomah County—the state’s most populous county, which rests in the swayback along Oregon’s northern ...
CNN

Fossilized footprints reveal unprecedented insight into prehistoric animal behavior in Oregon

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The Forward

In a first, Oregon’s Jewish federations pull investments from fossil fuels

(JTA) — Oregon’s two Jewish communal federations have decided to divest their endowment funds from the fossil fuel industry due to concerns about the ongoing impact of the climate crisis. The ...
KOIN 6

This Oregon town lets you dig for 33-million-year-old fossils and take them home

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Three hours east of Portland, in a town of 450 people, the local high school doubles as an amateur archaeological dig. Some 33 million years ago, the land was a sprawling ...
CNN

29 million-year-old fossilized nest discovered in Oregon could be one of a kind

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